Google Maps Could Take in-Car Place Pages Beyond Names and Routes [APK Teardown]

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What to know
Place pages gain an overview, gallery, parking, and trip details
Addresses, phone numbers, and nearby amenities get dedicated sections
EV charging information becomes part of the place experience

What to know

Google Maps is developing richer in-car place pages with Gemini summaries, photos, parking information, trip details, nearby amenities, and contact information.
The new layout organizes key destination and EV charging details into dedicated tiles for drivers.
We found the dormant code in an unreleased Google Maps v26.35.00.969485213 build, but could not surface the feature in the app.

Google Maps is preparing a substantial expansion of the place information shown in cars. The new experience covers everything from an AI-generated overview and photo gallery to parking, addresses, phone numbers, nearby amenities, and trip details.

We found the new strings after diffing Google Maps v26.35.00.969485213 against the previous build. Together, they describe a more complete place page designed specifically for the in-car interface.

About APK teardowns — An APK teardown examines code added to an app before its associated features have shipped. It can reveal what a developer is building, although unfinished features may change, remain behind a server-side flag, or be abandoned before reaching users.

Place pages gain an overview, gallery, parking, and trip details

The expanded interface divides place information into several clearly named tiles. Drivers will be able to move between an overview, a gallery, parking information, and trip details. Google has also prepared empty states for cases where a place has no photos, overview, or trip information to display.

Key The overview can include an AI-generated description carrying the label “Summarised with Gemini.” That attribution makes clear when Gemini has condensed the available information about a destination.

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_ABOUT_AI_HINT = “Summarised with Gemini”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_OVERVIEW = “Overview”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_GALLERY = “Gallery”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_PARKING = “Parking”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_TRIP_DETAILS = “Trip details”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_CONTENT_GALLERY_NO_PHOTO = “No photos available”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_CONTENT_NO_TRIP_DETAILS = “No trip details available”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_CONTENT_OVERVIEW_NO_OVERVIEW = “No overview available”

Addresses, phone numbers, and nearby amenities get dedicated sections

Google Maps is also giving practical place information more structure. The new code references separate headers for an address, phone number, features, and places located inside another destination. An “Amenities nearby” entry and a “Good to know” tile would bring additional context into the same in-car page.

Key These additions point to place pages that provide more of the information you may need before arriving, without reducing the destination to its name and route alone.

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_ABOUT_HEADER = “About”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_ADDRESS_HEADER = “Address”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_PHONE_NUMBER_HEADER = “Phone number”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_FEATURES = “Features”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_LOCATED_INSIDE_HEADER = “Located Inside”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_AMENITIES_NEARBY = “Amenities nearby”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_GOOD_TO_KNOW = “Good to know”

EV charging information becomes part of the place experience

The same build adds deeper electric-vehicle information. Google Maps references nearby charging stations, on-site chargers, charger availability, out-of-service ports, payment networks, current battery level, expected battery use, and charging time.

A dedicated action for showing nearby charging stations connects those details directly to the expanded place page. Availability can also be expressed as a live count using the existing placeholders for available and total ports.

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_EV_STATIONS_NEARBY_HEADER = “EV Charging Stations Nearby”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_SHOW_NEARBY_EV_STATIONS = “Show nearby charging stations”

ONSITE_CHARGERS = “On-site chargers”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_CHARGER_AVAILABILITY = “Availability”

CAR_EV_INFO_NUM_AVAILABLE_PORTS_OF = “%1$d of %2$d”

CAR_EV_INFO_OUT_OF_SERVICE_PORTS_LABEL = “Out of service”

CAR_EV_PAYMENT_NETWORK_TILE_TITLE = “Payment network”

CAR_PLACE_DETAILS_TILE_NAME_ADD_BATTERY = “Add battery”

CAR_EV_ADD_CURRENT_BATTERY = “Add current battery”

CAR_EV_BATTERY_USED_TEXT = “%1$s battery used”

CAR_ROUTE_DETAILS_CHARGING_TIME = “Charge %1$s”

These richer place pages are not available to users yet. We’ll watch future Google Maps builds for signs of a rollout.

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